Mauritania - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Mauritania was 75.02 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 95.40 in 1972 and 75.02 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 86.90
1961 88.30
1962 89.32
1963 90.10
1964 90.73
1965 91.27
1966 92.36
1967 93.25
1968 93.94
1969 94.36
1970 94.48
1971 95.14
1972 95.40
1973 95.37
1974 95.14
1975 94.77
1976 94.94
1977 94.86
1978 94.59
1979 94.18
1980 93.65
1981 93.67
1982 93.49
1983 93.17
1984 92.74
1985 92.24
1986 92.48
1987 92.59
1988 92.57
1989 92.40
1990 92.10
1991 92.14
1992 91.95
1993 91.60
1994 91.15
1995 90.63
1996 90.22
1997 89.78
1998 89.26
1999 88.63
2000 87.87
2001 87.08
2002 86.15
2003 85.14
2004 84.16
2005 83.25
2006 82.55
2007 81.85
2008 81.16
2009 80.50
2010 79.85
2011 79.41
2012 78.95
2013 78.47
2014 77.95
2015 77.38
2016 77.09
2017 76.66
2018 76.13
2019 75.58
2020 75.02

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population